Geographic Orientation/California
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The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
$26.95 Add to cartWhen The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no on
- Author: Holliday, J. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 29 2018
- ISBN10: 080613464X
- Language: English
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Hollywood High: Put Your Diamonds Up
$16.00 Add to cartExplosive rumors and a mega-media frenzy almost ended the Pampered Princesses’ reign as Hollywood High royalty. Now only one diva can win the ultimate fame of thrones… London Phillips is keeping her… [more below]
- Series: Hollywood High #3
- Author: Simone, Ni-Ni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0758288522
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles
When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a- Author: Podair, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192790
- Language: English
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Coastal Gardening in the Pacific Northwest: From Northern California to British Columbia
$22.95 Add to cartCoastal Gardening. It has challenges that no other type of gardening can boast: Salt, wind, and sand to name a few. This book combines necessary information about Pacific Northwest coastal gardening a… [more below]
- Author: Albright, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 28 2007
- ISBN10: 158979317X
- Language: English
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Dry
$21.99 Add to cartWhen the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestsellin… [more below]
- Author: Shusterman, Neal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1481481967
- Language: English
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American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
$15.00 Add to cartThe mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for “something different” in its narrow lanes and fish mar… [more below]
- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557245
- Language: English
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Top Trails: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks: 64 Must-Do Hikes for Everyone
$24.95 Add to cartThis guide describes the best sights of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in 64 must-do hikes, including those through the Giant Forest, to picturesque lakes, and to the summit of Mount Whitney.
- Series: Top Trails
- Author: White, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0899978053
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
$21.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Coverd Wagon Women #2
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 080327274X
- Language: English
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Homeland
$20.99 Add to cartIn Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco–an experience th
- Series: Little Brother #2
- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0765333708
- Language: English
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Early Warner Bros. Studios
$24.99 Read moreSince 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio’s magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Stephens, E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0738580910
- Language: English
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Hollywoodland
$24.99 Read moreEstablished by real estate developers Tracy E. Shoults and S. H. Woodruff in 1923, Hollywoodland was one of the first hillside developments built in Hollywood. Touting its class and sophistication, th… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Mallory, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0738574783
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$18.00 Add to cartFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of … [more below]
- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 1987
- ISBN10: 0140255702
- Language: English
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
$18.99 Read more“Excellent social history…an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism, joy and terror Los- Author: McKeen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1641605715
- Language: English
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95 Add to cartOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown–but when cor
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358151
- Language: English
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Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood (Revised Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartOn the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966 an electrifying scene appeared out of nowhere, exploded into creativity, and then, just as suddenly, vanished. So much remarkable music, art, and so
- Author: Priore, Domenic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1908279907
- Language: English
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Greetings from Los Angeles
$30.00 Read moreA fascinating tour of Los Angeles told through vintage images.
The City of Angels’ story is told through a fun and colorful collection of old photos, picture postcards, brochures, ads, and other vintag
- Author: Moruzzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1423647254
- Language: English
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Patina Farm
$40.00 Add to cartA new farm home blending modern lines and materials with French antiques.
When Brooke and Steve Giannetti decided to leave their suburban Santa Monica home to build a new life on a farm, they looked in
- Author: Giannetti, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1423640462
- Language: English
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
$43.68 Read moreWhat makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay … [more below]
- Series: Chairman’s Circle Books
- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: November 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0520262492
- Language: English
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
$22.00 Read moreThe Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare–a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, fr… [more below]
- Author: Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890771007
- Language: English
